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This page will show you some of Chicago's museums. The Field Museum was built in the early 1900s on a grant of 7 or 8 million dollars from Marshall Field (the same store that Target owns). Speaking of which, in the loop, Marshall Fields has its 6 story store with more than one million square feet of shopping space. On the top floor is a Tiffany stained glass work that is not to be missed. It is considered the most priceless of all of Tiffany's creations. I HIGHLY recommend entering the Field Museum from the SOUTH side. The museum is nice but quite lame compared to the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History.
Anywho, There is also the Shedd Aquarium. I liked it a lot. Not as much as the Aquarium at the inner harbor in Baltimore. They were the same price. It features an Amazon exhibit that is not to be missed. It also has a simulation of the barrier reef with native fishies. The standard exhibits include a breakdown of fish by geographic region in the United States. The special exhibit is a dolphin show. They aren't bottlenose dolphins. They're black and white and only about 6 feet long. The have beluga whales, seahorse exhibit, and my favorites...the otters. John Trent hit it right on the nose when he defined the fun-loving, easy going personality as the Otter.
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| The back entrance to the Field Museum, facing Grant Park. | Sue, the pride and joy of the museum. The most complete T-Rex known to man. Eat your heart out Carnegie. |
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| The atrium with the skylights featured. | The atrium with Sue featured at the bottom. |
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| The elephants inside the Field Museum. | The entrance to The Shedd Aquarium. |
